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Sir William Knyvett (c. 1440 – 2 December 1515) was an English knight in the late Middle Ages. He was the son of John Knyvett and Alice Lynne, the grandson of Sir John Knyvett, and assumed the titles of Sheriff of Norfolk & Suffolk, Burgess of Melcombe, Bletchingley, & Grantham, Constable of Rising Castle.
Life
Sir William married three times. The first was to Alice Grey, daughter of John Grey, Esq., of Kempston, eldest son of Reginald Grey, 3rd Baron Grey de Ruthyn by his second wife, Joan Astley; by whom he had issue. His second marriage was to Lady Joan Stafford, daughter of Humphrey Stafford, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Lady Anne Neville, by whom he had issue. His final marriage was to Lady Joan Courtenay, widow of Sir Roger Clifford, and daughter of Thomas de Courtenay, 5th Earl of Devon, a friend of York, and his wife, Lady Margaret Beaufort; they had no issue.
Sir William Knyvett died 2 December 1515. In his will dated 18 September 1514 and proved 19 June 1516 he requested to be buried in the church of Wymondham, Norfolk.
Issue
His children by his first wife, Alice Grey, were:
1. Sir Edmund Knyvett (d.1504) of Buckenham, who married Eleanor Tyrrell, the daughter of Sir William Tyrrell of Gipping, Suffolk by Margaret, daughter of Robert Darcy, knight. Eleanor was sister of Sir James Tyrrell. Sir Edmund Knyvett, his eldest son by his first marriage, was partly disinherited by his father, who left Buckenham Castle and other properties to Sir Edward Knyvett, the eldest son of his second marriage to Joan Stafford. ...
2. Anne Knyvett who married John Thwaites, Esq.
3. Bennet Knyvett, a daughter
4. Elizabeth Knyvett
By his second wife, Lady Joan Stafford, Sir William Knyvett had three sons including along with three daughters:
1. Sir Edward Knyvett, (d.1528) the eldest son of his second marriage, who received a great inheritance from his father at the expense of his brother. He married Anne Calthorpe, widow of John Cressener, and daughter of John Calthorpe, knight, by Elizabeth, daughter of Roger Wentworth.
2. Charles Knyvett, according to Carole Rawcliffe, in The Staffords, Earls of Stafford and Dukes of Buckingham 1394-1521, Charles Knyvett witnessed against the Duke because he had "wrongfully withheld" the possessions of Elizabeth Knyvett after her death.
- Robert Knyvett (c.1512–1549), gentleman, son and heir, slain in Kett's Rebellion
3. John Knyvett
4. Elizabeth, likely the Elizabeth Knyvett who is mentioned in her father's will in 1514 as being of a marriageable age. And also likely the Elizabeth Knyvett who died in 1518, when Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham gives 15/- 'To M. Geddyng, toward the burying of my said cousin', after giving at Easter last 'Eliz. knevet' the 20/- due to her at Lady Day. The two were related through her mother.
5. Anne Knyvett who married Charles Clifford, Esq.
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